109 Cannon shell self destruct
 

I thought all the shells self-destructed, but while playing around I found the shells without a tracer don't. I was trying to fire single shots, and found that when a round without tracer fired, it wouldn't detonate in the distance - is that accurate?

A trivial point, but I'm just curious.

It's the exact opposite of what I'd expect to happen.

There were 2 versions of 20mm tracer neither self destructed.

We all sound like we were there and speak from experience.

I wouldn't worry about the german self-destructing cannon shells, i'd worry about the hispano suiza 200 000mm autocannon. No pictures from the test facility of the first test firing exist, but a nearby grunt squad were having lunch during their long march and caught it on camera. The test facility can... erhm, could be seen in the background

http://lh6.ggpht.com/kaushik810/SHs5...umb%5B2%5D.jpg

Luckily only one round was fired before the gun was destroyed from the blast. Imagine the magazine emptying completely.

Luftwhiners, beware!

Something about the war i missed here?

I'm pretty sure you missed the whole war.

from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_151_cannon

scroll down to "Ammunition specification"

Sternjaeger wins (said in Mortal Kombat voice)

Thanks for that. Never thought wikipedia would have such a ridiculously detailed amount of info for the MG151/20. (This isn't in the Emil though is it?)

In any case, from what I gather there, CLOD is therefore incorrect - anytime tracer is mentioned there, so is 'no self destruct', so it seems to be the other way around.

Case closed enough for me, thanks.

Well the Emils used MG/FF,which was substantially the same round,but with a smaller case and less powder,I have both MG/FF and 151/20 shells and apart for the aforementioned case shape I noticed no other differences.